Retrofit Contracts

Square Retrofit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Retrofit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retrofit over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 709 825
Rank change year-on-year +117 +116 -164
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 6 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.017% 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.068% 0.072% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 17
10th Percentile £346 £479 -
25th Percentile £445 £503 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £588
90th Percentile £637 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Retrofit is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retrofit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retrofit.

Daily rate trend for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrofit over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retrofit within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London - 4 £569 -
Work from Home +132 2 £465 -
England +122 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £569 -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Retrofit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Firebase
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Gradle
3 2 (33.33%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Android Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Dagger
2 5 (83.33%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (66.67%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (50.00%) RxJava
5 1 (16.67%) Android SDK
5 1 (16.67%) Ktor
5 1 (16.67%) OkHttp
5 1 (16.67%) RAML
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) WireMock
5 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (66.67%) Android Development
2 4 (66.67%) MVVM
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) SOLID
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Push Notifications
5 1 (16.67%) Runbook
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA